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title: "Modrowronka duża"
description: "Cyanocorax beecheii — Ptaki. The purplish-backed jay (Cyanocorax beecheii) is a bird of the crow family Corvidae, with purple feathers on its back, wings, and tail and black feathers elsewhere."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/purplish-backed-jay
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Modrowronka duża

> Cyanocorax beecheii — Ptaki. The purplish-backed jay (Cyanocorax beecheii) is a bird of the crow family Corvidae, with purple feathers on its back, wings, and tail and black feathers elsewhere.

- Scientific name: *Cyanocorax beecheii*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las)
- iNaturalist observations: 1045
- Wikidata: [Q223370](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223370)
- iNaturalist taxon: [8482](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/8482)

## Names

- en: Purplish-backed Jay
- de: Trauerblauhäher
- es: Chara sinaloense
- fr: Geai à dos violet
- nl: Purperruggaai
- pl: Modrowronka duża

## Countries with the most observations

MX (1028)

## Summary

The purplish-backed jay (Cyanocorax beecheii) is a bird of the crow family Corvidae, with purple feathers on its back, wings, and tail and black feathers elsewhere. It is endemic to northwestern Mexico, where its habitat is mainly dry deciduous forest. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed it as being a "species of least concern".

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purplish-backed_jay

## Photo

![Modrowronka duża](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/purplish-backed-jay/medium.jpg)

Photo: Sinaloa Silvestre · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/156817490

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/purplish-backed-jay?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).